In 1800, Alessandro Volta invented the first version of the thing we now call a battery. We’ve come a long way from his initial gadget to the lithium-ion batteries that power much of our lives, including our phones, batteries, cars, satellites, and more. via Pocket

When Carol Atkinson left the workforce at the time her third child was born more than two decades ago, she never thought she would wind up in charge of a diabetes non-profit that has touched countless lives in part by coordinating an award-winning response to emergencies created by natural disasters via Pocket

Tania Singer, a celebrated neuroscientist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on empathy. via Pocket

our new @TheLancetPsych paper was the biggest ever study of exercise and mental health. it caused quite a stir! here's my guided tour of the paper, highlighting some of our excitements and apprehensions along the way [thread] 1/n https://www.thelancet. via Pocket

BethAnn McLaughlin is a Vanderbilt University neuroscientist who has started online petitions calling on the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to revoke the memberships of those found guilty of sexual harassment or assault. via Pocket

All but one of the major content platforms have banned the American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, as the companies raced to act in the wake of Apple’s decision to remove five podcasts by Jones and his Infowars website. via Pocket

There he is, the size of a Candy Land piece, right on the ottoman in front of me: teeny, tiny LeBron James. He jets down the Golden State Warriors’ court—sitting flush on the chocolate leather—and dunks in a hoop the size of my wedding band. via Pocket

The new school year is right around the corner and I have gotten a few requests from new students entering a Data Science or Analyst program to talk about my experience in graduate school. I graduated with a Masters of Science in Analytics from the University of Chicago in June 2016. via Pocket

A few weeks ago, we had the opportunity to chat with Joe DeCosmo, Chief Analytics Officer at Enova International and Enova Decisions, for a special live webinar (you can watch the recording on YouTube). via Pocket

In June 2016, Antonio Perkins unintentionally broadcast his own death to the world. It was a sunny day in Chicago, and he was sharing it on Facebook Live, a platform for distributing video in real-time, released just a few months earlier. The video is long. via Pocket

Chances are that you’ve never heard of General Magic, but in Silicon Valley the company is the stuff of legend. Magic spun out of Apple in 1990 with much of the original Mac team on board and a bold new product idea: a handheld gadget that they called a “personal communicator. via Pocket

The Northern Hemisphere is sweating through another unusually hot summer. Japan has declared its record temperatures a natural disaster. Europe is baking under prolonged heat, with destructive wildfires in Greece and, unusually, the Arctic. via Pocket

An ambitious project that set out nearly 5 years ago to replicate experiments from 50 high-impact cancer biology papers, but gradually shrank that number, now expects to complete just 18 studies. via Pocket

We often want to harness the power of the internet in our daily data practices, i.e., collect data from the internet, share data on the internet, let a dataset evolve on the internet and analyze it periodically, put products up on the internet, etc. via Pocket

Bayes' theorem explained with examples and implications for life.Check out Audible: https://ift.tt/2nE3tnX Veritasium on Patreon: http://ve42.co/patreonI didn't say it explicitly in the video, but in my view the Bayesian trap is interpreting events that happen repeatedly as events that happen via Pocket

A 2013 measles outbreak rooted in a vaccine-refusing community in Brooklyn, New York cost the city’s health department an estimated $394,448, requiring 87 employees to collectively spend more than 10,000 hours on outbreak response and control, according to an analysis published Monday in JAM via Pocket

I’ve been a Twitter user since March 2009. In that time, I’ve posted more than 32,000 messages to the social media site, and I’ve liked more than 6,000 tweets from other people. More than likely, that means I’ve also been a social science guinea pig. via Pocket

For the last few weeks, I’ve moved up in the world: Thanks to the generosity of my friend and colleague Jason Snell, I’ve been rocking a Series 2 Apple Watch (I know: be still your beating heart), finally replacing my ancient Series 0, aka first-generation, model. via Pocket

On May 11, 2017, a reporter named Trey Yingst, who covers the White House for the conservative news network OANN, tweeted a photo of a framed map of the United States being carried into the West Wing. via Pocket

Every day, tens of thousands of people stream into Google offices wearing red name badges. They eat in Google’s cafeterias, ride its commuter shuttles and work alongside its celebrated geeks. But they can’t access all of the company’s celebrated perks. via Pocket

In this digital age, the exponential rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation brings with it questions over the role of the workforce, but any challenges are far outweighed by the opportunities on offer. via Pocket

This month Apple demonstrated that it doesn’t need a major media event to launch new Mac hardware, as it rolled out new MacBook Pro models with an invitation-only press briefing in New York City. via Pocket

Digital technology is transforming the world we live in, and also the world of work. This drives changes in human behaviors in personal lives and also creates new expectations that people have as employees. via Pocket

Imagine a set of three numbers, pick any number you want. For instance, it could be the set [1, 6, 5]. Calculating the mean for those numbers is easy: (1 + 6 + 5) / 3 = 4. Now, imagine a set of three numbers, whose mean is 3. via Pocket

As I mentioned on Tuesday, I was very skeptical that President Trump’s stunning performance at Monday’s press conference would lead to any great shift on Capitol Hill or among core Trump voters. I remain skeptical. In fact, we’ve seen evidence from the Hill tending to validate that skepticism. via Pocket

What are you doing? I don’t mean what are you doing with your life, or in general, but what are you doing right now? The answer, in one respect, is simple enough: you’re reading this magazine. Obviously. via Pocket

“Science Finds–Industry Applies–Man Conforms.” That was the motto of the Chicago 1933 International Exposition. I used it as the epigraph of my 1993 book, Things That Make Us Smart, suggesting that it be flipped to read “People Propose, Technology Conforms. via Pocket

Nearly every night of our lives, we undergo a startling metamorphosis. Our brain profoundly alters its behavior and purpose, dimming our consciousness. For a while, we become almost entirely paralyzed. We can’t even shiver. via Pocket

We'd better start with the hardest question: "What is functional programming (FP), anyway?" One answer would be to say that FP is what you do when you program in languages like Lisp, Scheme, Haskell, ML, OCAML, Clean, Mercury, or Erlang (or a few others). via Pocket

After months of hard work, we’re thrilled to introduce the Frame Tool, a new and free top-level tool, the Duotone premium filter pack, and an enormous list of app-wide improvements to keep Darkroom head and shoulders above the pack in quality and performance. via Pocket

Back in the days of paper based planners, I depended on mine to help me stay on top of my to-do list and commitments. Making the switch to electronic tools was difficult and disruptive, and initially I didn’t want to do it. via Pocket

Do you often find your workday spiraling out of control? You start each day with a plan to get so much done, but soon find yourself becoming distracted, focusing on low-priority tasks and, simply, procrastinating. via Pocket

In this post I’ll look at replicating Hadley Wickham‘s gather() tool from his tidyr package using the pandas melt() function. Why would anyone want to do this? Well, Dr. Wickham’s work is beautiful, and the pandas.melt() function is not as elegant as the tidyr::gather() function. via Pocket

Many of us are bombarded with various recommendations in our day to day life, be it on e-commerce sites or social media sites. Some of the recommendations look relevant but some create range of emotions in people, varying from confusion to anger. via Pocket

Many a blogs and articles are written on how to become a Data Scientist. The list normally goes like this While there is nothing wrong in the path illustrated above, it is not the sufficient way to become an efficient data scientist. via Pocket

Hanging out with Paul Querna, a longtime Node.js core contributor and Rackspace’s systems architect, is more fun than a basket of kittens. In this video interview, he and I chat about how far Node has come in a relatively short period of time. via Pocket

Pride of place [among proper settings for the education of children] goes to the family, based on the marriage of a man and a woman. This is not a simple social convention, but rather the fundamental cell of every society. via Pocket

I’ve spent the last week with Apple’s new iMac Pro, and in most ways it’s just a faster Mac. It's the first pro Mac desktop in over three years and the fastest Mac yet made, granted, but still entirely familiar. via Pocket

I’ve previously written at some length about the evils of religion, but they pale against a far greater, more pernicious, more widespread blight on society. Religion itself, as always, continues to support and propagate this greater cruelty. via Pocket

At Conversion.com, our team and our clients know first-hand the impact experimentation can have. But we also see all too often the simple mistakes, misconceptions and misinterpretations organisations make that limit the impact, effectiveness and adoption of experimentation. via Pocket

PyData Amsterdam 2018A Data Scientists work is not done once machine learning models are in production. In this talk, Jannes will explain ways of monitoring Keras neural network models in production, how to track model decay and set up alerting using Flask, Docker and a range of self-built tools.--w via Pocket

Perhaps your son or daughter has graduated but can’t find a first job. It’s a common complaint among parents who have toiled to ensure their child gets a college degree, only to face apathy from potential employers. via Pocket

Companies pay dearly to sponsor the World Cup. There’s no event more widely watched than soccer’s premier tournament—over 3 billion people tuned in in 2014—and FIFA, the sport’s governing body, is expected to generate around $1.6 billion in revenue from marketing this year’s cup. via Pocket